Bowls can be played all-year round. In summer bowls is generally played outdoors on a flat green (lawn bowls) or sloping green (crown green bowls) but in winter it is played indoors. Indoor bowling has two main forms – long-mat and short-mat.
Ryedale Short-Mat Bowling Club (formerly BSA) playing a league match
Long-mat bowls (or indoor bowls) requires special facilities such as those provided at Ryedale Indoor Bowls Club, located in Norton on Derwent, Malton.
Short-mat bowls requires a suitable carpet but can be played in any hall of sufficient length and width. Thus, for example, short-mat bowls clubs often use the local village hall. There are two leagues operating in the Ryedale area – the Ryedale League (RL) and Dales League (DL). Local short-mat clubs (with the leagues they play in) include:
Ryedale IBC (formerly BSA) DL
Helmsley DL, RL
Kirby Misperton RL
Kirkbymoorside DL, RL
Marton DL
Thornton le Dale DL, RL
St Cuthberts (Stillington) RL
Welburn RL
Wintringham –
Yedingham –
Since the winter of 2020/1 the BSA (Swinton) club have been playing at Ryedale Indoor Bowls Club.
More information about short mat bowls here and elsewhere in North Yorkshire can be found on website www.nysmba.com
Outdoor or Lawn Green Bowls
Welham Outdoor Bowling Club, is an attractive club located in Norton on Derwent. The picture shows the view across the green towards the centre of Malton
There are four leagues in which local clubs participate:
Batagas (BT): Triples, Monday and (some) Friday evenings
Hovingham (HF): Fours, (some) Tuesday and Thursday evenings
Huby (HT): Triples, Tuesday and (some) Thursday evenings
Ryedale Vets (RV): Triples, Wednesday afternoons
Local Lawn Green bowls clubs (and the leagues in which the play) include:
Easingwold BT, HT, RV
Harome HT, RV
Helmsley BT, HF, RV
Hovingham BT, HT
Huby HT, RV
Hutton le Hole HT, RV
Kirkbymoorside BT, HF, RV
Malton BT, RV, HT (website: www.maltonbowlsclub.org )
Pickering BT, HF, RV
Sessay HF
Settrington BT, HF
Sheriff Hutton RV, BT
Stillington HF, RV, HT
Strensall BT, RV, HT
Swinton BT, HF, RV
Terrington BT, HT
Thirsk Athletic HF
Welham (Norton on Derwent)
Wiggington BT, HT, RV
More details about these clubs can be found on the League websites:
Batagas League: www.batagasbowls.wordpress.com
Hovingham League: https://www.hugofox.com/community/hovingham-district-bowls-league-13468/contact/
Huby League: 
Ryedale Vets League: https://ryedaledistrictveteransbowlsleague.wordpress.com
View local contacts https://ryedalebowls.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/contacts.pdf
Local Outdoor Bowling Club Contact Details
| Driffield Town | Sue Medcalf | 07969313848 | tommosue@talktalk.net |
| Easingwold | Steve Brown | 07742664029 | brown_s63@sky.com |
| Harome | Malcolm Armstrong | 07773556251 | malcolma1@live.co.uk |
| Helmsley | Jilly Sales | 07469876447 | jillysales@gmail.com |
| Hovingham | Ann Vardy | 07732585263 | ann_vardy@hotmail.com |
| Huby | Freddie Alnutt | 07740414114 | fred.hubybowlsclubsec@btinternet.com |
| Hutton Le Hole | Jim Pewtress | 01751431001 | jimpewtress@gmail.com |
| Kirkbymoorside | Gail Allan | 07484120690 | gail.allan@btinternet.com |
| Malton | Ian Strangeway | 07971779378 | ianstrangeway@btinternet.com |
| Pickering | Jean Smith | 07825877429 | jeansmith50@btinternet.com |
| Seamer | Denise Everson | 07984054641 | deniseeverson94@gmail.com |
| Settrington | Maureen Croser | 07527069892 | maureencroser@yahoo.co.uk |
| Sherrif Hutton | Peter McCalllum | 07764949783 | secretary_shbc@gmail.com |
| Sledmere | Dave Foreman | 01262488349 | daveforeman@outlook.com |
| Stillington | Margaret Tomlinson | 01347811443 | margaret_tomlinson@hotmail.com |
| Strensall | Penny Parish | 07810446019 | pparish@doctors.org.uk |
| Swinton | Chris Atkinson | 07972221816 | christobol150@hotmail.com |
| Terrington | Dave Gaskell | 07733312428 | dave@gaskellfamily.plus.com |
| Thornton Le Dale | Chris Gibbons | 07944265932 | gibbonsc1@yahoo.co.uk |
| Welham | Joe Wade | 07745177888 | joewade78@hotmail.com |
| Wetwang | Denise Stead | 01377240800 | denisestead@aol.com |
| Wiggington | John Graham | 07785921226 | johnd.graham@btinrternet.com |
This page will be used to provide more details of other bowling activity within Ryedale and the Norton-Malton area of North Yorkshire. Many details about bowls activities in Ryedale can be found here
Ryedale Indoor Bowls Club 